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CERTIFICATE
Certified that this is a bonafide record of the Seminar entitled
th
Of the VII Semester ,Computer Science and Engineering in the year 2009 in
partial fulfilment of the requirements to the award of Degree Bachelor of
Technology in Computer Science and Engineering of Cochin University of
Science and Technology.
Ms.Vini Vijayan
Project Guide
Place:Thrikkakara
Date:13.07.2009
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I take this occasion to thank God Almighty for blessing me with his
grace and taking my endeavor to a successful culmination. I extend our
sincere and heartfelt thanks to my esteemed guide, Ms Vini Vijayan for
providing me with the right guidance and advice at the crucial junctures
and for showing me the right way. I would also extend my sincere thanks to
our head of the division Mr. David Peter S., for allowing me to use the
facilities available. I would like to thank the other faculty members too on
this occasion. Notably Mr V. Damodaran who has been a constant source
of inspiration from our first year onwards. Last but not least, I would like to
thank my friends for the support and encouragement they have given me
during the course of my work.
ABSTRACT
Todays global communications infrastructures of landlines, cellular
towers, and satellites are inadequately equipped to support the increasing
worldwide demand for faster, better, and less expensive service. At a time
when conventional ground and satellite systems are facing increasing obstacles
and spiraling costs, a low cost solution is being advocated.
List Of Figures
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Title
Page No.
HALO Concepts
SkyStaion
17
StratSat
18
HALO-Proteus
19
SkyTower
19
Smart Antenna
22
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TITLE
1 . INTRODUCTION
1.1 High Altitude Aeronautical Platform Stations
1.2 General Architecture
Desirable Features
Service Attributes
Halo Network Architecture
Subscriber Units
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5. APPLICATIONS
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6. ADVANTAGES
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7. HAAPS ISSUES
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8. CONCLUSION
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9. REFERENCES
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Chapter 1
INTRODUCTION
1.1 HIGH ALTITUDE AERONAUTICAL PLATFORMS (HAAPS)
High Altitude Aeronautical Platform Stations (HAAPS) is the name of a
technology
for
providing
wireless
narrowband
and
broadband
payload,
and
associated
ground
station
HAAP
Feeder-band beam
Ground
Station
User-band
Beam
Public/Private
networks
Coverage Area
The platform is positioned above the coverage area. There are basically
two types of HAAPS. Lighter-than air HAAPS are kept stationary, while
airplane-based HAAPS are flown in a tight circle. For broadcast applications, a
simple antenna beams signals to terminals on the ground. For individualized
communication, such as telephony, "cells" are created on the ground
by some
Chapter 2
HALO NETWORK CONCEPTS
2.1. BASIC CONCEPTS :
High-Altitude Long Operation (HALO) aircraft present a new layer in
the hierarchy of wireless communications -- a 10-mile tall tower in the
stratosphere above rain showers and below meteor showers (i.e., high above
terrestrial towers and well below satellite constellations).
The airplane's fuselage can house switching circuitry and fast digital
network functions. A MMW antenna array and its related components will be
located in a pod suspended below the aircraft fuselage. The antenna array will
produce many beams -- typically, more than 100. Broadband channels to
subscribers in adjacent beams will be separated in frequency. For the case of
aircraft-fixed beams, the beams will traverse over a user location, while the
airplane maintains stationary overhead, and the virtual path will be changed to
accomplish the beam-to-beam handoff. The aircraft will fly above commercial
airline traffic, at altitudes higher than 51,000 feet. For each city to be served, a
fleet of three aircraft will be operated in shifts to achieve around-the-clock
service. Flight operational tactics will be steadily evolved to achieve high
availability of the node in the stratosphere.
aircraft
spots on the ground while increasing the number of beams within the signal
footprint, or by increasing the signal bandwidth per beam. The HALO network
can interface to existing networks. It can operate as a backbone to connect
physically separated LANs through frame relay adaptation or directly through
LAN bridges and routers.
The HALO Network will be able to offer wireless broadband
communications services to a "super metropolitan area," an area encompassing
a typical large city and its surrounding communities. The aircraft will carry the
"hub" of the network from which we will serve tens to hundreds of thousands
of subscribers on the ground. Each subscriber will be able to communicate at
multi-megabit per second bit rates through a simple-to-install user terminal.
The HALO Network will be evolved at a pace with the emergence globally of
key technologies from the data communications, millimeter wave RF, and
network equipment fields.
to occur whenever the airplane achieves the longest slant range from that
terminal while flying within the designated airspace.) Under these
assumptions, the Many types of organizations -- schools, hospitals, doctors'
offices, and small to medium-size businesses -- around the world will benefit
from the low pricing of broadband services provided by the HALO
Network. Standard broadband protocols such as ATM and SONET will be
adopted to interface the HALO Network as seamlessly as possible. The
gateway to the HALO Network will provide access to the Public Switched
Telephone Network (PSTN) and to the Internet backbone for such services as
the World Wide Web and electronic commerce. The gateway will provide to
information content providers a network-wide access to a large population of
subscribers
to
3,000 square miles, large enough to encompass a typical city and its
neighboring communities. Such a high value for the MLA was chosen to
ensure a line-of-sight connection to nearly every rooftop in the signal footprint
and to ensure high availability during heavy rainfall.
By selecting MMW frequencies, a broadband network of high capacity
can be realized. The airborne antenna array can be configured to project a
pattern of many cells numbering from 100 to more than 1,000. Each cell on the
ground will cover an area of a few square miles to several tens of square miles.
2800 mi of area can be covered. The total capacity achieved by only one
platform can be in the range of 10100 Gb/s.
The cells created by the antenna array would be fixed on the ground, and
there would be no overlapping area between adjacent cells. The cellular pattern
would cover a metropolitan-scale area. The altitude of aircraft would be 16 km.
CHAPTER 3
Implementation And Requirements
3.1 ONBOARD EQUIPMENT
Depending on the application, HAAP-based communications system
could be implemented in many ways. A typical design will seek high reliability,
low power consumption and minimum weight and size for the onboard portion
of the system. That would lead to an architecture which places most of the
system on the ground by limiting airborne components to a multichannel
transponder, user-beam and feeder-beam antennas and associated antenna
interfaces.
10MHz
LNA1
BPF
Frequency- division mux
:
Beam
forming matrix
LNA50
:
BPF
10 MHz
BP
HP
BPF :
HPA1
Frequency- division
demux
LN
BPF
500 MHz
HPA50
BP
500 MHz
Carrier
signals coming from a ground cell (i.e., from a particular beam)and received by
the onboard antenna are first amplified in low-noise amplifiers(LNAs). They
are then limited to the standard 10MHz bandwidth by band-pass filters (BPFs),
and frequency division multiplexed. Before transmitting to the ground station,
multiplexed signals are amplified in the high-power amplifier (HPA), BPFed to
the transponder bandwidth and passed through the diplexer (D). Signal path in
the opposite direction is similar and includes an additional demulitplexing
stage. If commercial off-the-shelf equipment is to be used onboard, it will have
to be placed in a chamber with climate and air-pressure control to prevent
freezing, overheating due to reduced heat convection) and dielectric
breakdown.
500 MHz .
BPF
LNA
Freque
n cydivision
D
BPF
LNA
500 MHZ
Single-beam antenna(to airborne platform)
Freque
n cydivision
:
Multicarr
i er
CDMA
base
statio
MSC
PSTN
Due to the high altitude at which these aircraft will be required to fly (20
km or higher) and the required endurance (from a few weeks to a year) the
method of propulsion is the major design factor in the ability to construct the
aircraft. One method of supplying power for this type of aircraft is to use solar
photovoltaic (PV) cells coupled with a regenerative fuel cell. The
main
advantages to this method over others such as open cycle combustion engines
or air breathing fuel cells is that it eliminates the need to carry fuel and to
extract and compress air at altitude which can be a significant problem both in
gathering the required volume of air and in rejecting the heat of compression.
In order for a solar powered aircraft to be capable of continuous flight, enough
energy must be collected and stored during the day to both power the aircraft
and to enable the aircraft to fly throughout the night. The propulsion system
consists of an electric motor, gear box and propeller. As the efficiency
increases, the corresponding reduction in aircraft size decreases. Fuel cell
performance has a significant impact on size and performance of a solar
powered aircraft. There are modest size reductions with increasing fuel cell
efficiency; however, the size reductions which are gained by an increase in the
specific energy of the fuel cell are substantial.
Aircraft size increases significantly with increasing altitude. The
specified time of year (date) and latitude determines the charge/discharge
period for the energy storage system as well as the amount of total solar energy
available. The winter solstice, December 22, is the date with the longest
discharge period and smallest amount of available solar energy. This date was
chosen as the baseline because it is the time of lowest daily average solar flux
in the northern hemisphere and therefore represents a worst case situation. Any
aircraft power system and mission configuration which is feasible at this date
would be capable of operating throughout the year. However, by varying the
required latitude throughout the year, aircraft size can be reduced.
Payload and payload power required also has an effect on the aircraft
size. Mission requirements will mostly determine the amount and type of
payload. In most situations lightweight, low power instruments, similar to
satellite equipment, will need to be used.
If very light weight amorphous silicon arrays or any thin film array of
similar performance can be mass produced, they would have significant
advantages over individual-celled rigid arrays. The main advantage would be
their incorporation onto the wings of the aircraft. Since they are flexible and
can be made in large sheets they can conform to the shape of the wing. This
allows for fairly easy installation directly over the wing surface. Also there
would be no need to wire each individual cell together as is necessary with
individual rigid cells. In order to make the commercial construction and
maintenance of this type of aircraft practical, light weight, flexible PV arrays
will need to be used.
CHAPTER 4
VARIOUS HAAPS PROJECTS
HAPS have been proposed using both airship technology and high
altitude aircraft.
The data rates foreseen for the mobile services are 9.6 - 16 kbps for voice and
384 kbps for data.
4.1.2. StratSat
StratSat is an airship system planned by the UK based company Advanced
Technology Group (ATG). With both civilian and military applications, the
StratSat cost effective and safe solution for geo-stationary telecommunications
payloads above large customer concentrations. The airship in the stratosphere
is well above conventional air traffic and presents no threat. Its cheap launch
The solar array provides the sole source of renewable energy for the
airship. The array is placed over the upper quarter of the hull and extends over
approximately three-quarters of the length of the craft.
4.2.1. HALO-Proteus
Angel Technology Corporation (USA) offers broadband telecommunication
service using manned aircraft. A piloted, FAA-certified High Altitude Long
Operation (HALO) aircraft will provide the hub of the network. Operating
continuously over each market in three eight hours shifts.
Consumers will be able to access video, data, and the Internet at rates ranging
from 1 to 5 Mbps.The technologies of high altitude manned aircraft is mature.
A broadband wireless link at 52 Mbps has been demonstrated in August 1998.
Chapter 5
APPLICATIONS
The large coverage area of a HAAP would tend to give it an advantage in
two types of applications. One is where many widely separated customers
receive the same communication as in entertainment broadcasting. HAAP
technology might be able to achieve many of the benefits of the GEO-based
Direct Broadcast Satellite without having to transmit quite so homogeneously
over so large an area. Unlike GEO-based technology, upstream channels are
also possible in HAAPs which would enable interactive TV and Internet access
capabilities.
GS
Cell1
Cell2 Cell3
HAAP
Chapter 6
ADVANTAGES
HAAPs do not require any launch vehicle, they can move under their
own power throughout the world or remain stationary, and they can be brought
down to earth, refurbished and re-deployed. Once a platform is in position, it
can immediately begin delivering service to its service area without the need to
deploy a global infrastructure or constellation of platforms to operate. HAAPs
can use conventional base station technology the only difference is the
antenna. Furthermore, customers will not have to use different handsets.
end-
user radios on the ground use directional antennas that are pointed to the signal
source as in a wireless local access system.
Chapter 7
HAAP
ISSUES
In spite of many advantages there are many critical issues that the
HAAPs technology is facing. The most critical issue is that- it still remains to
be demonstrated that placing a platform at stratospheric altitude and "fixing" it
reliably above the coverage area is possible and that it can be done in a costefficient, safe and sustained manner. It is still not proven that planes can fly at
stratospheric altitudes for long stretches of time, that dirigibles can be stationed
at stratospheric altitude, and that the position of weather balloons can be
controlled.
Another critical issue is the presence of winds in the stratosphere. The
average minimum stratospheric wind velocity is 30-40m/s and occurs between
65 000 and 75 000ft depending on latitude. Even though HAAPs are designed
to withstand these winds it may not be able to withstand sudden wind gusts
resulting in temporary or total loss of communication.
The technical problems are still substantial: All materials must be
lightweight, resistant to radiance at high altitudes, and at least for
airshipsleakproof for helium. The engines must be strong enough to keep the
platforms stationary at winds of up to 55 m/s. Flying with solar power is a
possible solution. Airships especially offer enough area on their envelope for
the integration of solar cells. For long endurance missions only part of the
collected irradiance is available for the direct propulsion. The rest has to be
used to charge the energy storage for the night time. Sufficient energy has to be
produced and stored for the propulsion and the telecommunication. equipment.
Chapter 7
CONCLUSION
HAAPS will provide wireless broadband communication services.
HAAPS has several advantages over terrestrial wireless networks. The latter
have complex geometries involving many base stations interlinked by cabling
or microwaves. Moreover, each time cell splitting is used to increase system
capacity, the network can demand significant reengineering. On the other hand,
satellite networks require more expensive terminals with high power to achieve
the same data rates possible through HAAPS. Also, the longer propagation
delays demand more complex algorithms to achieve interactivity. The capacity
of a satellite network can be increased, but at higher expense than the HAAPS,
typically only by adding more satellites. And, like terrestrial networks,
reengineering of the entire satellite network may be required. HAAPS have
striking advantages over proposed large LEO(LOWER EARTH ORBIT)
constellations, including ease of repair and rapidly evolving performance.
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Djuknic,
J.
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al.,
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Wireless